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  2. CYCLONE

    A cyclone, which did damage estimated at more than £10,000, struck Gympie with terrific force to-day. Some houses were bodily carried away ...

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  3. MR. HAWKER

    The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Hawker) announced in the House of Representatives just before 2 o'clock this morning that lie had tendered ...

    Article : 475 words
  4. RUSSIAN TIMBER.

    A shipment of between 700,000 and 800,000 superficial feet of Russian timber from Vladivostok has reached Sydney by the Japanese steamer ...

    Article : 407 words
  5. FINANCE UNDER MR. LANG.

    The Auditor-General's report for 1931-32, tabled in Parliament yesterday, throws an interesting light on the administration of the State's finances by the Lang Government. The report makes it clear that the business of government was carried ...

    Article : 170 words
  6. AUSTRALIAN CREDIT.

    Circumstances are combining to improve Mr. Bruce's prospects for the New South Wales loan conversion at satisfactory rates. The cheerful Federal Budget, Victorian and New ...

    Article : 484 words
  7. DISARMAMENT.

    In opening the meeting of the Bureau of the Disarmament Conference at Geneva to-day, the chairman (Mr. Arthur Henderson) declared that the ...

    Article : 435 words
  8. INDIA.

    Reports from Bombay state that Mr. Gandhi approves the principle of the formula for the solution of the problem of representation in the Legislature of the depressed classes, which ...

    Article : 390 words
  9. REVIEW OF FINANCES.

    The year ended with an accumulated deficiency on the consolidated revenue fund of £17,506,874, made up of the excess of payments over receipts for the year of ...

    Article : 941 words
  10. CANADA.

    The appointment of a commission of three trustees, in whom shall be vested all the powers of the present board of directors of the Canadian National Railways is one of the ...

    Article : 491 words
  11. A.C.T.U. CONGRESS.

    Conflicting views weie expressed by delegates to the All-Australian Trade Union Congress to-day concerning the value or otherwise of tariff protection to Australian industries. ...

    Article : 526 words
  12. LIBERAL PARTY.

    The National Liberal Federation meeting, widely regarded as a first step towards the termination of the freetraders' connection with the Government, considered the policy ...

    Article : 227 words
  13. RELIEF FUNDS.

    Comment was made by the Auditor-General, in his annual report yesterday, to advances made by the Lang Government out of the unemployment relief fund to trade union and ...

    Article : 690 words
  14. PRINCE OF WALES.

    The Prince of Wales, who has been staying with the King and Queen at Balmoral, returned to London this morning, and proceeded to St James's Palace to complete his ...

    Article : 158 words
  15. STATE BUDGET.

    The president of the Employers' Federation of New South Wales (Mr. C. M. McDonald), referring to the Budget speech, stated:- "From the point of view of Government ...

    Article : 652 words
  16. FIJI TREASURY CLERK.

    Following an investigation by a special committee regarding an alleged robbery from the Treasury safe at Suva of £700 last March, Hugh Neville Reay, 30, a second-class clerk ...

    Article : 92 words
  17. CHINA.

    While, owing to the Manchurian situation, the Chinese Government is endeavouring to convince the world that the country has achieved national unity, and that internecine ...

    Article : 154 words
  18. METHODIST UNION.

    Ten thousand Methodists, thronging the Albert Hall at the uniting conference, rousIngly welcomed the oversea delegations, of which the Rev. A. T. Holden, of Melbourne ...

    Article : 208 words
  19. THE TRAMS.

    The Premier and Treasurer (Mr. Stevens), in his Budget speech, announced that tram fares across the Sydney Harbour Bridge would be reduced from /4 to /3 for each journey. ...

    Article : 154 words
  20. SEDITION CHARGE.

    In the Police Court to-day, Martin Luther Reading, editor of the "Telegraph," was committed for trial on a charge that on August 4 he printed and published a seditious writing. ...

    Article : 63 words
  21. TRADE RETURNS.

    "During the 12 months which ended in August, Canada's excess of exports over imports was 38,684,390 dollars whereas for the year which ended in August, 1931, the excess ...

    Article : 173 words
  22. ITALIAN MIGRANTS.

    The Minister for the Interior (Mr. Parkhill) referred to-day to statements that the Italian Government and not the Commonwealth decided the number of Italians to enter ...

    Article : 281 words
  23. TATE'S ILLNESS.

    The question of Maurice Tate's inclusion in the M.C.C. team to tour Australia has been deferred till the selectors' next meeting early next week. ...

    Article : 169 words
  24. OWNERSHIP OF WHEAT.

    Mr. Justice Richards, in a judgment delivered in the Civil Court yesterday, held that wheat stored by farmers with Verco Bros, and Co., Ltd., millers and wheat merchants, who ...

    Article : 80 words
  25. CAPTURED BRITONS.

    Officials of Manchukuo are greatly concerned about the probable fate of two British subjects, Mrs. Pawley and Charles Corkran, who were captured by bandits outside the ...

    Article : 128 words
  26. AEROPLANE ACCIDENT.

    Mr. F. P. Taylor pilot was gravely burnt, and Mr. A. L. de Tourettes was slightly burnt and injured as the result of a Moth aeroplane crashing into a house at ...

    Article : 104 words
  27. CLASH WITH POLICE.

    Thirty people were injured and 15 arrests were made and many shop and tramcar windows were broken as a result of clashes between the police and unemployed at Liverpool. ...

    Article : 154 words
  28. COMPENSATION CASE.

    After having given evidence in a case before the Workers' Compensation Commission at Newcastle to-day, in which he sued J. and A. Brown and Abermain Seaham Collieries, Ltd., ...

    Article : 190 words
  29. SIR WALTER SCOTT.

    The Sir Walter Scott centenary celebrations reached a climax in Scotland to-night, the whole of the border country being ablaze with beacons. ...

    Article : 99 words
  30. PENSIONS POLICY.

    Replying to-day on behalf of members of the United Australia party to criticism of the Government's pensions policy, Mr. W. A. Holman M.P., said that Government ...

    Article : 226 words
  31. BOMB EXPLOSION

    A bomb placed in the doorway of the home of Judge McGoorty, of the Superior Court, exploded, gouging out the eyes and possibly fatally injuring a boy and girl, both aged 16 ...

    Article : 198 words
  32. ENDOWMENT.

    The Premier (Mr. Stevens) explained yesterday that he did not propose to exclude employees working under Federal awards from the benefits of family endowment. ...

    Article : 107 words
  33. 'PLANE TRAGEDY.

    The British Air Ministry is interesting itself in the aeroplane accident at Byron Bay on Sunday, in which Captain Holden, Dr. G. Redfern Hamilton, and Mr R Virtue were ...

    Article : 120 words
  34. LAWN TENNIS.

    In the third round of the singles at the Pacific and south-west tennis championships, at Los Angeles, H. Ellsworth Vines (U.S.A.) beat J. S. OlliiT (Britain), 9-11, 0-1. 6-3: P. ...

    Article : 87 words
  35. NEW YORK MARKET.

    With a vigour that matched its best performances of the summer rally, the market swept buoyantly upward to-day, with net gains of from five to seven dollars, and larger gains ...

    Article : 76 words
  36. CRUELTY TO RABBIT.

    At a meeting of the Victorian Society for the Protection of Animals, the secretary reported that two young men in the country had been charged with having skinned a live ...

    Article : 84 words
  37. MR. BRUCE IMPRESSED.

    The Resident Minister in London (Mr. Bruce) is gratified with the tremendous improvement shown in Mr. Stevens' Budget. He said it would have a stimulating and ...

    Article : 41 words
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